Empire State Building going green
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With support from Bill Clinton’s foundation, Mayor Bloomberg has announced a plan to massively cut the carbon dioxide emissions of one of the more recognized landmarks world-wide. This project is one of the first steps in the Mayor’s plan to cut New York City’s total carbon footprint by 30% before the year 2030.
Clinton spoke on the subject, saying “We have to prove it’s good economics, and we have to prove we know how to do it” and by retrofitting something as well known as the Empire State Building, it sends a message around the world that “going green” is more than a just a hippy fantasy.
The upgrades to the sky scraper are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2010 and will, if everything goes as planned, will reduce the building’s carbon emissions by 105,000 metric tons – about the equivalent of the annual emission of 17,500 cars
[via Telegraph]
